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Keith Chegwin and Iain Lee have been accused of racial stereotyping while appearing on the celebrity edition of Pointless.

The duo were taking part on the BBC quiz show alongside Lisa Maxwell, Rav Wilding, Helen Lederer, Nicholas Parsons, Antony Costa and Michelle Heaton, when they gave an answer to a question many believed was racist.

They were asked to guess the name of the pop band from a visual clue, and in this case it was two young Asian girls looking at a range of spices.

They thought the answer to this visual clue was Cornershop not the Spice Girls (Picture: BBC)

The answer was Spice Girls but they said Cornershop.

Both Michelle and Antony admitted they would have gone for that answer too, but before the right one was read out Iain realised their error.

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‘It’s the Spice Girls, isn’t it?’ he said, while Keith hid behind their podium in embarrassment.

People were quick to share their disappointment at the duo and the show:

What is casual racism?

Casual racism is one form of racism. It refers to conduct involving negative stereotypes or prejudices about people on the basis of race, colour or ethnicity. Casual racism concerns not so much a belief in the superiority of races but negative prejudice or stereotypes concerning race.